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Comet thursday


Mark Daniels

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I think you are referring to Comet 168P/Hergenrother.

Here is the info that Theskylive website has on this one:

https://theskylive.com/168p-info

It seems to be in Perseus currently and is magnitude 13 currently according to the above info although another website has it at mag 11:

https://in-the-sky.org/data/object.php?id=0168p

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Unfortunately the popular media at not too reliable when it comes to reports of this type.

I think the brightest this comet has ever got is magnitude 8 suring the 2012 outburst. It was thought to have broken into pieces at that time so it is an interesting comet but not quite in the way that the Mirror reports.

 

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14 hours ago, John said:

Unfortunately the popular media at not too reliable when it comes to reports of this type.

I think the brightest this comet has ever got is magnitude 8 suring the 2012 outburst. It was thought to have broken into pieces at that time so it is an interesting comet but not quite in the way that the Mirror reports.

 

Thats a shame thanks for the help👍

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